Victory at Entebbe: Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. With Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss. In 1976, terrorists hijack an Air France airplane, and divert it to Uganda, where they demand to exchange their hostages for fellow terror
And here’s where the musical elements play a big role — by having the characters periodically break into song writer/director Audiard signals early on that we’re dealing with a heightened realism, that while the film may appear to be rooted in the real world, it’s operating on an ent...
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers. ...
Zoo – Season 1(TV sci-fi, James Wolk, Kristen Connolly) – This 13 episode summer series about animals gone wild has beenAvailable on Instant Streamingfor some time, now you can get it on disc. I’m watching it now – it isn’t bad if you can put your disbelief high on a shelf....
An American Hippie in Israel (1972) Incited by a disillusioned young man who has decided to flee from civilization, a group of 4 people go searching for freedom and happiness on an isolated island . When their boat goes astray and they are left without food, their animal instincts take ove...
The action centers on the city of Haifa, a model of multicultural coexistence, and the annual A-Sham Arabic Food Festival, founded by microbiologist Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, the first Israeli-Arab to win Israel’s reality show MasterChef. Each chef puts a personal spin on traditional recipes...
The “failure of imagination” was also broadcast as an episode of “The Lone Gunmen” (an X-Files spinoff on Fox) on 2001/03/04, six months before 9/11. Specifically, the plot was that terrorists hijack a plane (electronically, in this case) with the plan to fly it into the World...